{"id":167,"date":"2002-03-23T21:46:59","date_gmt":"2002-03-24T02:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2002\/03\/23\/\/"},"modified":"2005-10-22T15:19:39","modified_gmt":"2005-10-22T19:19:39","slug":"wtf-abc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2002\/03\/23\/wtf-abc\/","title":{"rendered":"WTF, ABC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Hurrah.  _The Ordinary Princess_ (by M.M. Kaye) was finally reissued, after many delays (it was supposed to come out in January).  It arrived today and I read it.  I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d read it since I was 10 years old and I found it at the library, but it was a book and a plot which had stuck with me over the years.  I never forgot it. So I figured I better purchase it when I found out it wasn&#8217;t OOP anymore.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been seeing ads on and off for this new reality show called &#8220;The Bachelor&#8221; which is going to be on ABC of all places.  Here is the premise: There is a guy who isn&#8217;t married, but is such a lazyass loser that he apparently can&#8217;t get any dates of his own and must depend on his pimp-daddy ABC to parade women in front of him.  Some desperately-seeking-publicity women with no self-respect sign up and compete among themselves to see who can demean themselves the most and ultimately be granted the honor of getting a proposal from this jerk.<\/p>\n<p>Family Values indeed. Disney should be ashamed of itself.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurrah. _The Ordinary Princess_ (by M.M. Kaye) was finally reissued, after many delays (it was supposed to come out in January). It arrived today and I read it. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d read it since I was 10 years old and I found it at the library, but it was a book and a plot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,5,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}